It's an incredibly talented newsroom with access to interesting subjects and quality data.

Cons

Despite priding themselves on being a "digital first" publication, the newsrooms refuses to adapt to a digital workflow. Visual resources are drained by daily print demands. Lack of visual leadership and structure. Not a lot of room for upward growth.

I have been working at Wall Street Journal full-time (More than 3 years)

Pros

Highest standards in the biz for reporting facts and treating sources courteously. Highly respected brand name. Nominal support for investigation and enterprise journalism. No explicit quotas. Worldwide reporting presence for international coverage and collaboration. Business built on subscriptions eases pressure to rack up clicks. Top-notch staff.

Cons

Organizational focus on publishing a daily newspaper and concurrent failure to commit wholeheartedly to digital publishing. Constricted editorial pipeline that can take a long time to publish even time-sensitive stories. Constant pressure to deliver both breaking news and features. Several layers of editorial oversight that generally remove detail, nuance, and grit from stories in the interest of making them accessible to a broad audience. Little to no management of staff workloads. Severe limits on article length. Understaffed at the bureau level. Self-important institutional attitude bordering on arrogance.

Advice to Management

Management needs to be realistic about what employees can accomplish in a 50-hour work week rather than continually demanding more. If they need more, the should increase headcount. When employees work through a weekend, management should take responsibility for awarding comp time and making space for employees to actually take it. Management is in a hard place -- revenue from journalism is shrinking while the ability to generate and publish news, as well as the potential audience, is growing. How to build a growing business and avoid burning out employees? A start would be to thin out the top-heavy editorial layers so articles can go online more quickly, and to reward solid stories published online rather than making Page One bylines the measure of a bureau's worth. Beyond that, editors at all levels need to move faster, willing to compromise on nonessential issues to get stories into publication quickly rather than bogging down in endless rounds of revision and re-reporting. Resist the compulsion to rewrite every sentence. Let stories run longer online. Don't cut so much detail and context that readers need to fill in the blanks in the comments section.